Collimate vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

Updated

Collimate

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Demo key, free with no card
Max session
24 hours

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

What is different

7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Collimate
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Billing
Collimate: Per second
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxesautoresearch.sfcompute.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.183 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when

  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related